EB 9.81
Major automotive brands participated in a gravity racing exhibition to engage youths with its engineers and designers to produce brand appropriate projects. In this case "what if" Bugatti participated provided the impetus for EB 9.81.
A gravity racer is mostly aerodynamics wrapped around a driver to maintain as much momentum as possible. Taken to its logical extreme, Simulation CFD was used to extract the minimal fairing form via Isoform analysis.
Initial package layout and concept for Bugatti gravity racer. The extreme aerodynamic is aided with a tandem foot arrangement.
The initial rough sketches.
Rough Rhinoceros skinning in progress. This "skin" is brought into Modo to be retopologised for final modeling fit and finish.
Final model next to its key thumbnail sketch.
Ingress check.
